paternalism

Aid became a bastion of paternalism or, as some came to see it, neocolonialism.

“We had to fight misogyny, paternalism, bureaucracy, and other significant barriers to be taken seriously,” Xenarios and Anderson later wrote.

There’s a certain presumption and paternalism to the notion that California Democrats know what’s best for California Republicans.

I would say it's paternalism, the idea that the leaders know what's best for everyone else and therefore can act for everyone else, and the idea of being a chosen people, of exceptionalism.

Black American liberals rejected the elements of feudalism they recognized in racial prejudice, paternalism and patriarchy.